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| Author: | Cov [ May 14th, 2013, 3:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Smoother needle movement |
Hello, I like to suggest enabling smoother movements of needles. Here is a video, where you see a Windows Standard Gadget on the left and an xwidget on the right for comparison:  CLICK The needle of the CPU Monitor Gauge (RAM on the bottom) moves significant smoother than the one on the right. |
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| Author: | Jimking [ May 14th, 2013, 4:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smoother needle movement |
Enabling "smoother" movement means increase the times in "Switch Animation" and this causes more CPU consumption! Or the background image/the widget in general should be really small or you will have a 20-30Mb for a single widget!! A this is not good.... Also the cpu meter that changes ontinuously, with more smooth movement it will be less accurate! Edit: Check better and you'll see that the left widget loose values! |
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| Author: | Cov [ May 14th, 2013, 5:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smoother needle movement |
Hi jimking, would you know what method I could use to find out the exact CPU load for each gadget? Actually, if smoother movements really causes more CPU utilization, then that'd be alright with me. See, I have lots of different gadgets on my desktop all the time and in idle, my CPU load shows approx 8%. Regarding the accuracy, if I compare the two gauges from the video, I still prefer the movements on the left hand side. If the widgets show the actual digital numbers next to the analog display, 100% accuracy of the needle is not important anymore. Whether it's gauges or bars, the user only gets an estimate impression anyway. And actually for me it's all about the visuals. |
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| Author: | Jimking [ May 14th, 2013, 5:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smoother needle movement |
As I said you can edit (for personal use) the animation increasing the values in "Switch Animation" tab.. The original background image must be small. Then needs less CPU.. Just "play" a litte with the values and check the CPU. Normally a widget has to consume 0%!!!  viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2868 pm: The only way to check the CPU during your design, just press "Debug" and then open the task manager (Alt/Crtl/Delete and check the values of XWTest.exe and the rest XW processes) |
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| Author: | Cov [ May 14th, 2013, 6:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smoother needle movement |
Hi jimking, I just tried it out, it worked !! • selected Edit • highlighted "rotator1" • went to "Animate" • to "Switch Animation" • changed value (slider) from 0.30 to 1.50 • refreshed widgets, I can indeed see a difference • changed value from 1.50 to 0.10 just to see • refreshed and wow, that's a massive difference!  Edit: I just tried Debug Mode and checked the Task Manager / Perfmon. Very interesting results, thanks for that! |
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| Author: | Jimking [ May 14th, 2013, 6:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Smoother needle movement |
Good! Now you know.
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